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The first edition of this book achieved considerable success due to its ease of use and practical approach, and to the clear writing style of the authors. The preparation of organic compounds is still central to many disciplines, from the most applied to the highly academic and, more tan ever is not limited to chemists. With an emphasis on the most up-to-date techniques commonly used in organic syntheses, this book draws on the extensive experience of the authors and their association with some of the world’s mleading laboratories of synthetic organic chemistry. In this new edition, all the figures have been re-drawn to bring them up to the highest possible standard, and the text has been revised to bring it up… More >>
Advanced Practical Organic Chemistry
#1 by Emmanuel Akinboye on February 20, 2010 - 10:34 am
This book is a great book to learn about doing synthetic organic chemistry in the laboratory.
It touches every area where a synthetic organic chemist may have problem. It’s a good book in every respect. As with all books there is room for improvement. Some aspects needs to be more detailed and specific. This will make the book to be the best in market.
Rating: 4 / 5
#2 by Evil_Mage_Ra on February 20, 2010 - 12:40 pm
As a physical chemist/spectroscopist by training who suddenly found myself needing to synthesize & characterize some model compounds for my experiments, I found this book to be a very helpful review of modern synthetic techniques, particularly in regards to purifying starting materials, dealing with air-sensitive compounds, and monitoring the reaction’s progress. Definitely a recommended reference for any chemist. It’s companion, “Advanced Practical Inorganic and Metalorganic Chemistry”, is also highly recommended, though if I had to choose between the two I’d say that “Advanced Practical Organic Chemistry” is most useful.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Matthew M. Yau on February 20, 2010 - 1:35 pm
The book discusses fundamental techniques in organic laboratory. Topics that I found very useful are running the reaction (i.e. air-sensitive and water-sensitive chemistry), monitoring reaction (i.e.thin-layer chromatography), working up reaction (have you wondered why ammonium chloride is a good reagent to work up the reaction? how to efficiently separate layers without emulsions?, etc), purifying compounds (i.e. distillation, recrystallization, determining the sizes of columns, choice of eluting solvents,…) The book should be on the shelf of every chemist.
Rating: 5 / 5